good morning, welcome to breakfast with louis minchin and dan walker. our headlines today: a warning on pension scams. millions of pounds were stolen last year, with victims losing £91,000 on average. the issue is thought to be much bigger than just the cases reported, so a campaign has been launched to warn those planning their retirement. i'll be looking at how big the problem could be. a promise of more power for social housing tenna nts, as ministers launch a new deal for renters in england. labour calls the plans "pitiful", with no new money for houses. e—cigarettes may be more harmful than previously thought, according to new research. andy murray says he only needs a small improvement to start winning tight matches again, after he went out in the first round of the cincinnati 0pen. concern over the falling number of mountan hares in parts of scotland. good morning from the pop—up farm in saint allman ‘s. i am surrounded by

su nflowers. saint allman ‘s. i am surrounded by sunflowers. the sun is rising with a north—east wind. in the south—east it will be dry, sunny and warm and in the north—west we have rain. more inis minute. it's tuesday the 14th ofjuly. our top story — pension holders are being tricked out of their life savings by fraudulent scams, according to city regulators. new figures show victims lost tens of millions to fraudsters in 2017. a new campaign's being launched to warn people of the different ways they can be fooled. sean's here to explain. some real big figures involved here. we are talking £23 million altogether over the last year or so, has been said to have been scammed

from people who have had issue with their pensions. when you break down into the 253 cases, that ends up as £91,000 each. 0ften, into the 253 cases, that ends up as £91,000 each. often, a lot of people think i wouldn't mind a pension pot that big. this could be a large amount of people ‘s plans for retirement. 253 people, one of those isjennifer, who retirement. 253 people, one of those is jennifer, who has retirement. 253 people, one of those isjennifer, who has experienced quite a considerable amount of her savings being ta ken. he said to me, that you need the money now? yeah. yeah. hit every symbol nerve. yes, we needed the money now. i symbol nerve. yes, we needed the money now. i never symbol nerve. yes, we needed the money now. i never bought any of the time thought that anything could go wrong. we lost probably about £55,000 altogether. life isjust go to be very difficult from now, trying to figure out we are go to do when we get older because we have nothing to fall back on now. what has been going on? a lot of it

is usual scanning techniques, cold calling, e—mails sent through. huge financial figures involved and calling, e—mails sent through. huge financialfigures involved and big financialfigures involved and big financial companies look after your pension, if those e—mails coming through might look like you are getting a good deal, people are clicking onto the things and going to do. there is a campaign launched today to encourage people in their 40s, 50s and 60s, who may be susceptible to this kind of thing. there are new pension freedoms that are coming in. more power in your pension pot for over 55 then you had before. scanners think that is an opportunity and having tried to take advantage of it. —— scanners. —— scammers. it is an issue they try to

get on top of. a new deal for social housing tenants is being set out by the government, with new proposals including landlord league tables and greater powers for regulators. the government says it will give residents more control to hold landlords to account. but the plans have been strongly criticised by campaign groups, for making no commitment to build more homes for people on low incomes. here's our political correspondent matt cole. following the grenfell tower disaster, the experiences of those living in social housing were thrown into the spotlight. the government now says it is listening. it says it wa nts a now says it is listening. it says it wants a new deal to rebalance the relationship between tenants and landlords, from now until any contract early november, a consultation will run that ministers will say it will examine that social housing can be a safety net and a springboard into homeowners sit. amongst the ideas in the green paper published today a suggestions for

any published today a suggestions for a ny syste m published today a suggestions for any system so that residents of safety concerns about their own can get a resolution. there are proposals to tackle the stigmatisation and stereotyping of those living in social housing and there is discussion of a tougher regulator to drive up standards and ensure social homes are well managed better places to live. the number of homes being built in britain today isa homes being built in britain today is a crucial part of this discussion. campaigners for better social housing is a more low—cost rented homes are required. the national housing federation and the chartered institute of housing said the number needed is as high as 90,000 new social rent houses per year. territory, bbc news. —— matt cole, bbc news. at 10 past 7 we'll talk to the housing minister kit malthouse about the plans. jeremy corbyn has hit back at benjamin netanyahu, after the israeli prime minister accused him of laying a wreath in memory of the palestinians suspected of being behind the munich 0lympics massacre in 1972. mr corbyn said mr netanyahu's claims

about his actions are false. let's talk to our political correspondent jonathan blake. good morning to you. how significant statement has this been from the israeli prime minister? well eat is extraordinary for a foreign minister like benjamin netinyahu to get involved in what is really a uk political row, even more unusual for jeremy corbyn to have responded in the way that he has, hitting back at benjamin netinyahu's criticism of him that he laid a wreath at at the graves of those accused of carrying out the munich massacre in 1970 and comparing israel's actions to the nazis. jeremy corbyn says those claims are false. this has blown up because the daily mail published pictures over the weekend, which it claimed showed jeremy corbyn at the palestinian martyrs cemetery in

tunisia at 2014, taking part in the laying of eight wreath at the graves of those accused of the massacre at the munich 0lympics. labour says it is not what he was doing there and jeremy corbyn has denied taking part in that insult. we has had a criticism against from labour mps, who say he should apologise and the shadow chancellorjohn mcdonald saying that benjamin netinyahu intervention here is a line in the sand and enough is enough. —— benjamin netinyahu's. around thirty homes were evacuated overnight as a fire broke out at a mill in rochdale. ten fire engines and more than 50 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze, which broke out at 10:30 last night. greater manchester fire service said it had got the fire under control at around 1am and was making good progress with the fire and would be scaling back. new research has found evidence that e—cigarettes may be more harmful than previously thought. the study by the university of birmingham suggests that breathing in vapour may cause long—term damage to the lungs. the study, in the journal thorax, showed that even low doses of vapour led to damaging changes in the lungs immune cells. 10 premier league clubs could have

played in front of empty stadiums during the 2016—2017 season and still made a profit. that is the finding of a bbc investigation, which shows the clubs benefitted from a record £8.3 billion in global tv revenue. matchday income contributed to less than a fifth of all earnings. here's our sports reporterjo currie. fans: the lifeblood of football. cheering. and, for decades, the main source of income to clubs. but not anymore. tv rights deals mean more than half the teams in the premier league could remain in the top flight even even if they played to empty stadiums. so how important are supporters these days? if clubs focus just on tv rights deals and not the fans, you are making a mistake, for the very good reason that we are part of the television product. if there wasn't full grounds with large away support and a good atmosphere, it wouldn't be nearly as attractive

to the broadcasters. so with so many top flight clubs making profit before a single fan has attended a match, like here at everton, should some of that money now be filtering down to supporters in the way of cheaper tickets? there's people on really low incomes that are working hard and just want to go to games, and they are priced out. for football, you pay the money — if music is your thing, you pay the money. so with a tv rights deal worth over £5 billion, many fans may be questioning if the money isn't to them, where is it going? players and agents will be high on the list. but everyone agrees that a game without supporters isn't a game worth watching. jo currie, bbc news. vienna has been named the world's most liveable city, that's according to a report

by the economist intelligence unit. the austrian capital outscored last yea r‘s number one, the australian city of melbourne. the report says manchester has seen the biggest improvement among european cities over the past year. the least liveable cities were dhaka in bangladesh, and the syrian capital, damascus. bit of a wobble now picture. i think it was a helicopter shot. yesterday we revealed the television presenter, katie piper as the first celebrity taking part in this year's strictly come dancing. last night, another two famous faces were confirmed. steps singer faye tozer and red dwarf actor dannyjohn—jules will also strut their stuff. meanwhile, the astronaut, tim peake has ended speculation as to whether he might compete for the glitter ball. the joke started when a journalist posted a message on twitter saying she had thought teasers about dannyjohn—jules signing up for the competition

had been about peake. he replied: clearly disappointed. 0n the one show they had the silhouette of the two and then they put three clues through the programme. i think the clues for danny was read, space was the other one. anyway, but somebody else thought it was kim peek, got confused. —— tim peake. can we have him? i don't think he is go to do it, no. dasher going to. —— going to. not much sparkle from andy murray. he has had a tough old time. being

out for a year with a hip injury. he murray lost to the 16th seed lucas pouille in cincinnati, but it was a tight match, he only lost four more points than the frenchman and murray said he only needs to improve by 10 or 15% to start turning things around. and johanna konta is also out. it was another very tight affair and she started strongly, taking the first set against aryna sabalenka, but she lost after almost two and a half hours on court. tottenham have been foced to delay the opening of their new stadium because of issues with the safety system. they'd hoped to be in place in time to welcome liverpool on september the 15th but their home games have been switched to wembley until at least late october. and great britain won six medals on the opening night of the pa ra—swimming european championships in dublin, including victory for scot quin in the men's sb14100m breaststroke. much more from the swimmers in the

next half an hour. we were talking about your market yesterday. we have got a mark and you haven't got one. —— mug. there are three on the table.|j there are three on the table. i am genuinely outraged on your behalf. thank you. i hurt you talking about this, i thought the first thing i do when i get in, get your hands on a mug. this discussion was so interesting that a national newspaper went with it as a story. let's take a look at today's front pages. the daily mirror claims more than £46 million has been stolen from people's pension pots in the last four years. it says cold—callers have swindled around 3,000 victims since reforms allowed people early access to their pensions. and katie piper on the front page, mentioning that she wants giovanni.

the daily mail looks at the row between labour leader, jeremy corbyn and the israeli pm who accused him of laying a wreath, in memory of the suspects behind the 1972 munich 0lympics massacre. a study suggests five million britons have at least triple the normal risk of suffering a heart attack because of their genes, according to the times. and the express features an image of the presenter and campaigner, katie piper leaving the bbc breakfast studios yesterday after we revealed she was taking part in this year's strictly. they are also talking about patients having to leave their care. the most read article on the bbc news website this morning is that the liverpool striker mo salah has been referred to the police by his club after he was apparently filmed using a mobile phone while driving. that's a quick look at the front pages. just on the daily mirror, they mention £46 million, we mention

£23 million, the differences since pension freedoms came in, but £23 million is how much people were scammed last year. inside the business pages, big story a round the last day, ticketmaster closing retail websites, so they have get me in and seatwave and lots of people will have felt like they paid way more than they wanted to pay on the secondary websites. ticketmaster have closed them down and campaigners say it is great news that they will replace it with a ticket exchange, which will limit the price rises at 15%. there are still secondary ticketing websites out there. campaigners are concerned people might pay over. it is an issue we've talked about a lot. that issue we've talked about a lot. that is breaking through into the industry. and the heathrow queues. yes. some of us have had queues elsewhere. yes. this is how heathrow

are dealing with it. one of britain's biggest airlines has resorted to have a welcome carte offering stacks. if you have been in a queue for three hours, just to get through. it might help. well, i have it wrong. fair enough. just a bottle of water. if you are standing for an hour. if someone says, i am sorry, would you like some cake's? would you like some you hour. if someone says, i am sorry, would you like some you would say, i would, and i will stay for another hour. you are whingeing in a queue —— cake? hour. you are whingeing in a queue -- cake? the front of the daily telegraph... i am far more complex than that. no, you're not. the front of the daily telegraph, here is a man who won't be delayed, though he might be travelling soon. they have a story saying that tiger woods, we spoke about him yesterday, after the fantastic performance at the

weekend, they say tiger woods has all but been confirmed as the peak to be in the first ryder cup in six years for him next month in paris. someone who might want to travel to watch him is sitting next me on the sofa. i know that you are a fan of tiger woods and you want to see the redemption. who knows, it might happen? i need your help for a moment. he was reading something. i am showing you because it is manchester city and i love this picture. it makes me think that these fantastic premier league footballers a re these fantastic premier league footballers are playing some kind of driving game. no, they are not. presumably, they are weights.|j driving game. no, they are not. presumably, they are weights. i was in the gym with kevin de bruyne yesterday. we were filming a piece which you can watch on breakfast tomorrow, on wednesday's programme. that is them training with weights yesterday just to that is them training with weights yesterdayjust to show you how hard they are working. there is no complacency. i think you mentioned this story last week about this grieving killer whale. such a sad

story. carrying around her dead calf for more than a fortnight. she has finally let her go. global attention has been brought to the plight of the species after she did this. i think she carried her baby around for someone how is in miles. only 75 of the species of killer whales are in this population and they haven't produced a surviving cast since 2015, so it is quite sad. this thing that i have been trying to get to the bottom of, the headline is to put daniel smartphone, it is making you stupid, apparently, with thought it would bring out an enriching epoque. —— put down your smartphone. because we are in constant contact with each other, we are less clever —— epoch. with each other, we are less clever -- epoch. who tweets the most? i am quite active on the social media network. it is all about, you know,

publishing, not publishing, publicising the programme. exactly. well done for getting the word epoch into the papers. that was really impressive. thank you very much. carol, it is such a great view this morning. explain where you are. good morning. explain where you are. good morning. good morning. yes, you are right. it is gorgeous here this morning. we are at a farm in saint auburn is andy can see this field of su nflowers — — auburn is andy can see this field of sunflowers —— st albans. when i have seen sunflowers —— st albans. when i have seen them, they are dead, and this is not the case, these grow up to about two metres and they flower for about two metres and they flower for about two metres and they flower for about two weeks. all of this is individual flowers and each one will provide a sunflower seed. i can't tell you how gorgeous they are. the forecast, well, we watch the sunrise here in st albans this morning. it isa here in st albans this morning. it is a lovely start to the day. the forecast is the north—west—

south—east split. in the north—west we have rain coming in. in the south—east it will be dry and relatively warm as well. on the pressure chart you can see all the front coming to the north—west. that will produce the rain. a ridge of high—pressure killing the showers in the south. this morning don't be surprised by some drizzle and showers in east anglia, the more than the south—west and wales. they will clear. a lot of dry weather. an end is in areas. the weatherfront in the north—west will produce rain —— and in eastern areas. it will be a breezy day today as well with temperatures in the north, 17— 20, and further south, roughly 20 to perhaps 25 in the london area. through this evening at overnight we will see the sky clear across southern areas, but the weather front, though it will be weak at this stage, not producing a lot of rain, it will pep up in the second half of the night, particularly across northern and western areas.

0nce across northern and western areas. once again, it is not going to be a cold night, with temperatures roughly in the range 12— 17, and for some of us it will be a humid night. so tomorrow we start with the weather front. it will still produce that rain. sinking slowly southwards. 0f that rain. sinking slowly southwards. of it we have a bright start. the cloud will build ahead of it as well. the south—east once again hangs onto the brightest conditions. tomorrow we could see temperatures in the south—east reach 25- 26. temperatures in the south—east reach 25— 26. for example in hull we could see that or even we could see that in norwich. as we head on into thursday, the weather front eventually makes it to the south—east, taking rain with it. as it does so, cooler air follows on behind. there will be a fair bit of sunshine or sunny spells, but showers in the north—west, where they could be heavy or thundery. i pointed out hole and norwich, well we have five or six degrees drop

before we get to sunday —— hull. i am handing it back to you. it is lovely to hang out here. it is gorgeous. it is so peaceful and beautiful. it really does look absolutely wonderful. thank you very much indeed. if you go in the supermarkets and staff there are loads of sunflowers on sale at the moment. normally they are not. that is what carol is talking about. exactly. more on our top story now — the government's proposing what it calls a new deal on social housing. ministers say quicker complaints procedures, landlord league tables, and greater powers for regulators will help rebalance the relationship between tenants and owners. with us now is katie schmuecker from thejoseph rowntree foundation, which aims to tackle poverty in the uk. good morning. kenya outlined some of the biggest social housing problems we are facing in the uk? —— can you outline. the biggest challenge is we are simply not building enough low—cost rental housing in the uk.

if you look at what we have been building in england, every year we are falling 30,000 homes short of what we need, and that has a terrible toll on families in the uk. what we are seeing is people pushed into poverty as a result of housing costs. 0ften into poverty as a result of housing costs. often that is because they are not able to access a low—cost socially rented home. they find themselves in the private rental sector where the rent is higher, tenancy is less secure and they don't have the breathing space to think about starting to do something like save for a deposit. and that means people are being pulled under by the housing costs. and they are finding themselves in poverty as a result of the housing. 0k. the government have called it the most substantial report of its kind in a generation. they really talk this up. has it delivered? sajid javid talked about top to bottom review of social housing sector when he sort of set about... when he was secretary of state in charge. if we have a top to bottom review we have

to find out why we are not building enough low—cost rented homes. the government has talked about this as one of the key principles of the green paper. now we need to see the delivery. we know they are not building enough homes. the public knows it hasn't been recognised and they want to see more low—cost rented housing provided. what we need to see now is delivery. and we need to see now is delivery. and we need to see the low—cost rented homes delivered so that people... so that we can loosen the grip of poverty on people's lies and people can build a better life for themselves and their families.“ you say we are 30,000 short every year, so what would we need now to get up to speed to where it needs to be? as a minimum we need to be building those extra 30,000 homes a year that we are not building at the moment, but if we are more ambitious we should go further because of the backlog that has built up. if you look at what the government spends on affordable housing, a lot of it is going on what they call

affordable rent. those are linked to the housing, the private rent, which is completely dysfunctional and unaffordable for people. it doesn't make sense to link rent with the private rental sector. they should be linked with what people can afford to pay, to what people are earning. the other thing, it comes after what happened in grenfell, has it happened? some of the things the government is talking about around stigma and the voice of tenants is really important. it is certainly the case that voices of people in poverty are going unheard too often in public debate. and you see the consequences of that in examples like the grenfell tower fire. the government is right when it talks about tackling stigma around social housing. that means we have to change the conversation about housing. we need to rental homes as a vital part of what enables people

to get some stability and breathing space so they are able to make ends meet at the end of the month and they are able to build a better life for themselves and their families. to do that we need low—cost rental homes to be built. we will speak with the housing minister at 7:10am this morning, and if you had one point to make, would that be the one that you would try to get across, the fact that there are not enough houses built? absolutely, and the ones that are called affordable homes need to be affordable to people on lower earnings, so no matter what you do for a living, if you are a cashier or a cleaner, if you are a cashier or a cleaner, if you work behind the bar, no matter what you do for a living you should be able to afford a home, particularly when you're working. really good to talk to you. thank you. still to come on breakfast: we'll be on the hills of aberdeenshire, looking for mountain hares, after reports that their numbers have fallen to just one percent of the levels they were at in the 1950s.

it looks like a beautiful day. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news. i'm tolu adeoye. dozens of passengers have been treated in hospital, three with serious injuries, after yesterday's coach crash on the m25. 41 people were injured, including seven children. the princess royal university hospital in 0rpington was put on major incident alert. kent police say a baby boy was born at the scene in the queuing traffic. the affected area has now fully reopened. the convicted rapist john worboys has been questioned about a number of new allegations of sexual assault. bbc news understands the former black cab driver, who's still in prison after the high court overturned a decision to release him, was interviewed under caution last month. the allegations include administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence. a new play at camden fringe festival

hopes to help men speak out about mental health. tommy wilkes had never opened up to anyone about his struggles until his daughter told him about the play she was writing. she rewrote it to tell his story. if we can help anybody with this sort of illness, any person, one person, that would be a big thing. tottenham will have to wait to play in its new 62,000 seater stadium. there are delays to it's completion because of issues with critical safety systems. premier league matches against liverpool in september and cardiff in october will be held at wembley. the club has asked supporters to remain patient until a new move—in date is set. let's have a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service on the tubes this morning. the a13 is down to one

lane in limehouse because of an overturned car. that will add to the usual delays coming in to town the victoria embankment remains closed westbound from southwark bridge to westminster bridge for major works. in fulham: north end road remains closed southbound for repairs to a sink hole. let's have a check on the weather now with alina jenkins. good morning. a couple of days of dry and settled weather. there will be sunshine around today. it will be warm and quite humid. some sunshine around this morning. then the cloud will tend to build and flatten out. bright or sunny spells through the afternoon. it stays dry, though. at gentle breeze. in the best of the sunshine temperatures reached 24— 25. it will be a fine end to the day. late sunshine this evening. 0vernight we have the mixture of cloud and clear spells. perhaps clear skies for a time in the early hours before cloud builds again as

we head towards dawn. another quite warm night. temperatures not dropping much lower than 14— 15. so tomorrow, it is dry, some good spells of sunshine, but a noticeable breeze. then the spell of rain on thursday behind it turns fresher. and then warm and dry again on the weekend. just quickly. the old vic is joining weekend. just quickly. the old vic isjoining forces with weekend. just quickly. the old vic is joining forces with the royal mail to mark the 200th anniversary with special sets of stamps, featuring some of the top performances of the venue over the yea rs performances of the venue over the years including romeo and juliet in 1960. that is it from me. see you in half an hour. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. it's 6:30am. we'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning — she's the fastest woman in the world this year and she's being tipped to win gold at the 2020 olympics. dina asher—smith, winner of three gold medals at the european championships, will be chatting to us after 8. jack whitehall‘s casting

as disney's first openly gay character has sparked an outcry. it's a subject we'll be discussing, after some critics asked why a gay actor wasn't picked for the part. and sean will be telling us about a new campaign to tackle pension scams. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. are urging people to be on their guard against pension fraud. people are being tricked out of their life savings and a new campaign is being launched to raise awareness. first, jennifer's trust was one, then her savings were lost, stolen by the fraudsters who were too good to be true. at first i didn't think

anything was a mess, it was like anything, i asked questions and he had anything, i asked questions and he ha d a nswe rs anything, i asked questions and he had answers to everything. the scam had answers to everything. the scam had begun at a cold call at a time when her finances had had begun at a cold call at a time when herfinances had been set fetched, the promises of a cash sum with a regular return pushed jennifer and her husband into investing and losing over £50,000. we haven't had any compensation and at our age we are having to start from scratch. they are not the only ones worried that their financial future, hundreds and possibly thousands of people are tricked by pension schemes each year. in 2017, the average lost reported was £91,000. now the city watchdog, the financial conduct authority and the pensions regulator have unveiled a campaign featuring this tv advert, urging people to watch out for the warning signs like paul is offering a free pension review, or a highrolling investments in hotels or

green energy schemes at. prevention is better than cure, we want to give people real handy tips to be aware of, particularly if they are being confronted by fraudsters. top of that list is looking on the website to see if a pensions firm is authorised. a quick check to stop your money disappearing fast. the government has outlined plans for more deep calls a new deal on social housing in england and at improving the quality of life for te na nts. improving the quality of life for tenants. the proposals include a table for landlords. the players have been criticised by campaign groups or making a koeman to build homes for people on low incomes. around 30 homes were evacuated overnight as a fire broke out at a mill in rochdale. ten fire engines and more than 50 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze which broke out at 10:30pm last night. the fire service said it brought the fire under control at around one a.m..

jeremy corbett has clashed with the israeli prime minister on twitter. benjamin netanyahu said jeremy corbyn deserved unequivocal condemnation for laying a wreath on the grave of one of those behind the atrocity. the labour leader said his claims are false and that he attended the event in tunisia in 2015 as part of a wider event about the search for peace. labour said jeremy corbyn did not lay any brief. new research has found evidence that e—cigarettes may be more harmful than previously thought. the study by the university of birmingham suggests that breathing in vapour may cause long—term damage to the lungs. the study, in the journal thorax, showed that even low doses of vapour led to damaging changes in the lungs immune cells. vienna has been named the world's most liveable city,

that's according to a report by the economist intelligence unit. the austrian capital outscored last yea r‘s number one, the australian city of melbourne. the report says manchester has seen the biggest improvement among european cities over the past year. the least liveable cities were dhaka in bangladesh, and the syrian capital, damascus. a p pa re ntly apparently one of the reasons is because the 65 euros and you get a travel pass for the entire city. if you have got a fear of heights, you might want to look away. danny arnold climbing one and of the mountains. this footage has been shed for the first time since he

completed it last month. he passed teams using ropes which had set off the previous evening to complete the climb in unbelievably two hours and 40 minutes. may be that is a word for climate is in ropes. crosstalk. andy murray, goodies and baddies but he did really fight back. he has come back from injury. he lost in three sets to lucas poulle in the first round of the cincinnati masters, but this is only his fourth tournament since he returned to the circuit and he said he just needed to improve

by 10 or 15% to start winning tight matches. i would have liked the results to be a bit at. the matches against the quys a bit at. the matches against the guys i have lost against have been three top 20 players. i was in far—off winning two of those matches. there vincent positives there. johanna konta also went out in the first round. she started really well against aryna sabalenka, taking the first set, before losing in three. it was another tight match though, they were on court for almost two and a half hours. you know when you have a bit of building work done, it tends not to be ready when you expect to. tottenham are unlikely to play in their new stadium at white hart lane until late 0ctober after issues with what they say are "critical safety systems". they'd marked their home match against liverpool on september the 15th as their first in the new ground but they now say they won't be able to stage the test events in the lead up to that.

they've switched that game and their next to wembley. the former england striker ian wright says manchester city winger raheem sterling comes in for unfair criticism from the press when he plays for his country, and it borders on racism. sterling was the subject of intense scrutiny over the summer's world cup in russia. he scored for city against arsenal on sunday, and speaking on radio 5 live, wright said sterling felt more loved when playing for his club. when you look at the ways of criticism that he takes, it is tinged, there is a certain amount of racism towards it if i am going to be totally honest. what else can it be? taia literally picking on someone be? taia literally picking on someone who has, the background he has come from, they literally want to keep him down. when he is at manchester city he is comfortable

and happy. went he is out there for england he is out there for everybody to lock onto and have a go at and that is what it comes down to. great britain won six medals on the opening night of the pa ra—swimming european championships in dublin, including gold for scott quin, who's known as the flying scotsman, led home his team mate connor morrison in the men's 100—metres brea kstroke sb14 event, for swimmers with intellectual impairments. the work i have done with a psychologist, kate ward, literally, she has pulled me through that. highs, lows, whatever. i got a victory there and sometimes you got to dig deep to retain a title like that. i am absolutely buzzing. newcomer louise fidds beat spanish world record holder michelle alonso morales to win the women's race in the same category. fellow brit bethany firth came home third to claim the bronze. alastair and jonny brownlee have been included in the british squad for the world triathlon grand final on the gold coast next month,

despite a disappointing year so far. the brothers, who have both struggled with injury this year, have missed out on the major medals this season. the latest setback coming when alastair finished fourth in friday's european championships in glasgow. and the british twin brothers adam and simon yates will race on the same cycling team at the upcoming vuelta a espana. they'll both be in the australian team mitchelton—scott for the race which starts in maaga on the 26th august. simon was leading the giro d'italia for much of the race earlier this year before fading in the final stages. we should have a section called sibling news. should we do a study, if you have a sibling good at sport, does that spur you on and make it more competitive? i think you just commissioned about report. have you got any funding? no. tiger woods was meant to be taking a non—playing role at this autumn's

ryder cup, but the american team captain has dropped the biggest hint yet that the 14—time major winner could now be included. woods finished second at the pga championship over the weekend, following up on the 6th place finish at the open last month. he didn't play in the last ryder cup two years ago, but now he could make one of captain jim furyk‘s four wildcard picks. what is important is how well the tiger has played. sixth place at the 0pen tiger has played. sixth place at the open championship, a second place at the pga. i think the word he used was trending. his game is trending. it is great to see him playing well, for me, the numbers, they are nice, good to look at, but not always the most important. we want the players that i go to help us be successful. you would pick on. you have got to. like he said. what a story that would be! thank you very much, see later.

—— see you later. it is 60 foot —— it is 6:42 a.m.. they're often heralded as a safe alternative to smoking tobacco, but a new study has found that e—cigarettes may be more harmful than previously thought. researchers at the university of birmingham say vaping may cause long—term damage to the lungs. let's talk to martin dockrell, who works on tobacco control at public health england. what does public health england think? will it change your advice? we were familiar with this research already. it really doesn't change anything at all. it finds that e—cigarettes are not 100% safe, not as safe as fresh air, but are much safer than smoking. concern around the world has got a much stronger over the last 12 months and they say on the available evidence is far less harmful than smoking. although

not completely safe, they have about 596 not completely safe, they have about 5% of the risk of smoking. now, if you are not a smoker, 5% is quite a lot. that is not a good move. if you area lot. that is not a good move. if you are a smoker, reducing your risk by 95% is a very smart thing to do. smokers thinking about switching should switch today without hesitation. your advice is actually is don't take up vaping if you don't already smoke. my advice is if you are smoking, switch completely. there is no evidence that people are taking up vaping who don't already smoke. the great majority of regular vapours in the uk, we have almost ten yea rs vapours in the uk, we have almost ten years of research on this now, have always been smokers and ex—smokers. so if you are a smoker, switch. if you are an ex—smoker, the important thing is to not go back to smoking. i was coming in this

morning and the driver of the cab turned out to be a vaper, he switched easily, he said he picked up switched easily, he said he picked up his fate and put down cigarettes. isaid up his fate and put down cigarettes. i said that is a great thing to do, keep that up. you mentioned you have got ten years of evidence because it is relatively a new things. do you think it might change in the future when you get people who have been doing this for more than ten years? it is possible. we don't know what the long—term results will be until we have 30 years of use. we are analysing the chemicals regularly. it isa analysing the chemicals regularly. it is a thoroughly researched area. there are hundreds of new studies on e- there are hundreds of new studies on e— cigarettes every month looking at the possible risks. in the uk we probably have the tightest regulatory system for e—cigarettes

short of banning them. so all e—cigarettes are tested, they have health warnings, they have nicotine concentration, and all sorts of standards they have to meet. and that's probably the right place. we are not where they are with australia, where they have banned them completely, or the us, with no regulation at all, we have a carefully balanced system. i am not complacent about that. we have to do co nsta nt complacent about that. we have to do constant research to make sure we have the balance right. so far it is looking really reassuring. three major reports from the us this year have come out that e—cigarettes are substantially have come out that e—cigarettes are su bsta ntially safer have come out that e—cigarettes are substantially safer than smoking. thank you very much for your time this morning. interesting, isn't it, more and more vaping shops opening

up, fascinating. would you like to see a magnificent su nflower? would you like to see a magnificent sunflower? definitely. look at that. and somewhere is the lovely carol with the weather for us this morning. good morning. i came near st albans, morning. good morning. i came near st alba ns, surrounded morning. good morning. i came near st albans, surrounded by gorgeous su nflowers. st albans, surrounded by gorgeous sunflowers. these ones are dwarf su nflowers. sunflowers. these ones are dwarf sunflowers. they grow to around one metre. they flower for around two weeks. and all sunflowers follow the sun. the sun rises in the east. these sunflowers were pointed at the sum this morning. they won't follow the sun. the reason is because their stems have now thickened. the cloud has come over as well. it is a pleasa nt start has come over as well. it is a pleasant start to the day. the forecast for the uk generally for the next couple of days is the north—west, south—east split, so in the northern and western we have rain, whereas in the south and the

east it will be dry and bright. you can see that nicely on the pressure chart with the cold front coming from the atlantic with a ridge of high pressure building. that ridge of high pressure will kill off some of high pressure will kill off some of the showers. first thing this morning there is drizzle and the odd showerfor morning there is drizzle and the odd shower for east anglia and the south—west of england. and parts of wales. that will clear and it will be dry with some sunny spells. the weather front from the north and west will introduce rain across scotland, into northern ireland and northern england. and then there will be cloud building with some bright spells this afternoon. temperatures in the north 17— 20, in the south around 19— 25 in london. this evening and overnight we will see the cloud break, clear skies will form, and patchy rain from the weather front across scotland, northern england and northern ireland. at the end of the night it will be heading up with more

persistent and heavy rain. it will be quite breezy, as it will be today. further south, with temperatures not falling lower than 17, once again, 12— 17, that will feel quite humid. tomorrow we will have the weather front. it will be slowly moving southwards through the day. across parts of wales, south—west, north—west, it will be cloudy and drizzly, further south and east it will be dry and bright and east it will be dry and bright and in the north—west we have showers again. as we move into thursday the weather front makes it to the south—east, taking rain with it. that is the cold front. behind it. that is the cold front. behind it we will see cooler conditions. we are looking at some sunny spells and across parts of scotland, northern england and northern ireland, there will be showers, some will be heavy and thundery. temperatures dipping in the south east from 25 or 26 on wednesday to around 18 or 19 on

thursday. for the rest of the uk, temperatures similar to what we are looking at over the next few days. it is lovely to be here among the flowers this morning. they are truly stunning. looking at you makes me wa nt to stunning. looking at you makes me want to relax and smile. it is lovely. thank you. look at that, less carol and more flowers. not that i am saying that is right. we will see you later. 0h that i am saying that is right. we will see you later. oh dear. we are still with you. you can hear carol laughing in the background. the number of working days lost to strike action is on the up. sean's here with more details for us. people might remember the strikes over the last year, especially if you are a commuter, and that's what we have been doing the maths on. these are figures on how the number of working days lost to strikes in the private sector have changed. those that haven't happened because

of industrial action. my colleagues at the bbc‘s wake up to money programme have been crunching the numbers on the working days that haven't happened because of industrial action and the results are quite surprising. they've found out that 373,000 working days were lost in the 12 months to april 2018. that compares to 361,000 in the four years to april 2017. this refers to business in the private sector. it's an interesting development because some people were worried about the impact the trade unions act would have on industrial action. it came into force in march last year and required any lawful strike action to get 50% support in a ballot. the last year has seen a number of high—profile strikes in the transport industry. workers in a number of rail franchises, as well as airlines like ryanairand ba, have walked out over issues including pay and job descriptions. paul nowak, deputy general secretary of the trades union congress, joins me from central london now. good morning. what was it, i know

that historically the strikes are at a low, but last year that what was it that caused the spike that meant many more days were lost in the previous three years? there are has been a surge in the last year compared with the last four years. it is fairto compared with the last four years. it is fair to say the bulk of the increase would have been countered by the fact that tens of thousands of lecturers took 14 days of strike action to stop the employer trying to push through the unfair changes to push through the unfair changes to their pensions. that was ultimately successful. and it demonstrates to make things. no one ta kes demonstrates to make things. no one takes it lightly. it is a last resort. no one likes this disruption and losing pay. and there is the public sector and private sector waking up to the fact that if they come together and if they have an employer that won't listen to them, that won't reach a fair settlement there are alternatives and industrial action in is one of them. the university lecturers strike was

a contributor. does it look like that was disproportionate, that there could have been strikes four working days they didn't have to cause disruption for students? absolutely not. i was with the university lecturers when they went out for the industrial action. if they could bring the employer to the table they could bring the employer to the ta ble after they could bring the employer to the table after one or two days of industrial action they would have taken it. industrial action they would have ta ken it. it industrial action they would have taken it. it took a than that. it is not just university lectures. taken it. it took a than that. it is notjust university lectures. we have seen workers taking action in mcdonald's. 0nly have seen workers taking action in mcdonald's. only in a couple of shops. a small number of workers. it had a significant impact. earlier this year mcdonald's announced the biggest pay rise for ten years as a direct result of the industrial action. recently we saw hospital workers in wigan, many low—paid, taking industrial action to stop the jobs outsourced, because they believe they would be better in the public sector and they would be able to provide a betterjob in the

public sector. it is hard to draw general conclusions from a small number of disputes. increasingly a sense that workers want employers to ta ke sense that workers want employers to take them seriously and to listen to concerns, and to act upon them. thank you forjoining us this morning. it is interesting. even the mcdonald's strikes still ended up with 80% of workers going with the more flexible contracts, but some changes were made, and are they worth it, the strikes? the unions think so. thank you. the mountain hare is native to the scottish highlands. in the summer they are grey—brown and in the winter they turn white. but according to new research, their numbers have fallen to less than one percent of their levels in the 1950s. conservationists blame culling, but that is disputed. kevin keane is in aberdeenshire finding out more. presumably trying to find some of the rare hares as well. good

morning. yes, we haven't seen any here today. this is a controversial issue, this area of conservation, and land management. it basically means targeting one species for the protection of another. in this case, targeting hares for the protection of the red grouse, which is important on shooting estates because people pay lots of money to shoot them for sport. it was long understood that the numbers were quite high and that year after year despite any culling they would come back and return. the later study is putting the long—held assertion into question. they are majestic mammals whose colour changes with the seasons. but this secretly recorded film shows that mt hares are regularly culled by shooting estates where they are seen as a by shooting estates where they are seen as a threat to the grouse. now this renowned ecologist says their

numbers in the east harlem are a tiny fraction of their levels in the middle of the last century. —— highlands. looking at the long-term data, places which were moving with ha res, data, places which were moving with hares, until then, now, data, places which were moving with hares, untilthen, now, you data, places which were moving with hares, until then, now, you wouldn't see one, or you hares, until then, now, you wouldn't see one, oryou might hares, until then, now, you wouldn't see one, or you might see one in the winter, and that was a colossal change. one of the best window cost about £4000 a year. doctor at watson has been an authority on the cairngorms for many decades with details stretching back to the second world war. then he was just a boy of 14. i've got this massive fieldwork from 1943 coming up to date, that's 75 years, a lifetime. hares are an important prey species for some of our most endangered and

iconic birds, but they can carry a virus which passes to the grouse, which is so important to our shooting estates. top predators like golden eagles, white tailed eagles area golden eagles, white tailed eagles are a conservation concern in their own right and the mountain hare is an important break component for the species are probably using the mountain hare densities at low levels, we a re mountain hare densities at low levels, we are limiting the population of golden eagles indirectly. the studies are posture the findings are disputed by land managers who say the decimation described is not recognised on the ground. the levels of mt hares on managed grouse areas can be extremely high and our members find the minister is simply not that they are disappearing, they are quite difficult to contain sometimes —— mt ha res. difficult to contain sometimes —— mt hares. some groups want hare culling banned entirely but adam watson says it wouldn't be necessary if proper controls were put in place to ensure their continued survival. well, there is a debate going on at

the moment about whether or not shooting estates should be specifically licensed and that would allow authorities to be more prescriptive about the numbers of mountain hares are allowed to be killed on those states and those who don't abide by the numbers could have those licences removed, but the outdoor and countryside sector is very much objecting to that and saying it is completely unnecessary. thank you very much. it is interesting to see both sides of the debate. and also such beautiful animals. gorgeous. we have the headlines coming up in a minute. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news. i'm tolu adeoye. dozens of passengers have been treated in hospital, three with serious injuries, after yesterday's coach crash on the m25. 41 people were injured including seven children. the princess royal university hospital in 0rpington was put on a major incident alert. kent police say a baby boy was born at the scene in the queuing traffic.

the affected area has now fully reopened. the convicted rapist john worboys has been questioned about a number of new allegations of sexual assault. the bbc understands the former black cab driver, who's still in prison after the high court overturned a decision to release him, was interviewed under caution last month. the allegations include administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence. a new play at camden fringe festival hopes to help men speak out about mental health. tommy wilkes hadn't spoken to anyone about his struggles until his daughter told him about the play she was writing. she rewrote it to tell his story. if we can help anybody with this sort of illness, any person, one person, that would be a big thing. tottenham will have to wait to play in its new 62,000 seater stadium.

there are delays to it's completion because of issues with critical safety systems. premier league matches against liverpool in september and cardiff in october will be held at wembley. the club has asked supporters to remain patient until a new move—in date is set. let's have a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service on the tubes this morning. 0n the roads: the a13 is slow in to town through dagenham. in new malden: traps lane and coombe road are closed following a fatal collision last night. finally in fulham: north end road remains closed southbound for repairs to a sink hole. let's have a check on the weather now with alina jenkins. good morning. it looks like our next spell of rain will be on tuesday. a couple of days of dry and settled weather.

there will be sunshine around today. it will be warm and quite humid. some sunshine around this morning. then the cloud will tend to build and flatten out. bright or sunny spells through the afternoon. it stays dry, though. a gentle breeze. in the best of the sunshine temperatures reach 24—25 celsius. it will be a fine end to the day. late sunshine through this evening. 0vernight we have the mixture of cloud and clear spells. perhaps a slot of clear skies for a time in the early hours before cloud builds again as we head towards dawn. another quite warm night. temperatures not dropping much lower than 14—15 celsius. similar day tomorrow, it is dry, some good spells of sunshine, but a noticeable breeze. then the spell of rain on thursday, behind it turns fresher. and then warm and dry again on the weekend. the old vic is joining forces with the royal mail to mark it's ——to mark its 200th anniversary with a special set of stamps. they'll feature some of the top performances at the venue over the years. including romeo and juliet withjudi dench and john stride and king lear with glenda jackson. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london

in half an hour. bye for now. good morning, welcome to breakfast with louis minchin and dan walker. 0ur headlines today: a warning on pension scams. millions of pounds were stolen last year, with victims losing £91,000 on average. the issue is thought to be much bigger than just the cases reported, so a campaign has been launched to warn those planning their retirement. i'll be looking at how big the problem could be. a promise of more power for social housing tenna nts, as ministers launch a new deal for renters in england. labour calls the plans "pitiful", with no new money for houses. a war of words betweenjeremy corbyn and israel's prime minister over mr corbyn's imvolvement in a palestinian wreath laying ceremony. e—cigarettes may be more harmful than previously thought, according to new research. andy murray suffers another setback on his return from injury.

he was beaten in the first round of the cincinnati 0pen, his 4th tournament after a year out. good morning from saint colburn ‘s, we are surrounded i sunflowers. a clear message to me not to walk on them. the forecast across the north—west, we would see some rain across the south and east where it will be dry with sunny spells. more in15 will be dry with sunny spells. more in 15 minutes. it's tuesday the 14th of august. our top story — city regulators are urging people to "be on their guard" against pension fraud, after new figures showed victims lost millions of pounds in scams last year. people are being tricked out of their life savings, and it's thought the problem could be far wider with just a minority of scams ever reported. sean's here to explain. we talk about lots of different scams, but when you look at pension

pot, the exposure could be much bigger. you do the numbercrunching as they have done and you see the total amount that people have been scammed out of. £23 million in 2017. that is 253 cases. if you divvied up, the average is £91,000 each. those are the ones reported and the industry thinks only a very small number of cases are being reported. it could be a much bigger problem and lots of people losing lots of money because of their access to pensions that they have. 0ne money because of their access to pensions that they have. one of thoseis pensions that they have. one of those isjennifer, pensions that they have. one of those is jennifer, who pensions that they have. one of those isjennifer, who spoke to us about how much money she lost. we lost probably about £55,000 altogether. he said to me, don't you need the money now? yeah. he hit every single nerve. yes, we needed the money now. it sounded perfect. i never for any of the time thought that anything could go wrong.

life isjust go to be very difficult from now on, trying to figure out we are go to do when we get older because we have nothing to fall back on now. and that is just one of several stories. how is this happening? how are people being scammed?m stories. how is this happening? how are people being scammed? it is a similar way are people being scammed? it is a similarway in are people being scammed? it is a similar way in other areas. the link in an e—mailthat similar way in other areas. the link in an e—mail that might take you to something. you ffi§§ in an e—mail that might take you to something. you fig? bona in an e—mail that might take you to somt financial i you fig? bona in

we would like to know questions and we would like to know if anybody else has had issues as well. to get in touch. thank you. jeremy corbyn has clashed with the israeli prime minister on twitter, in the growing row over mr corbyn's presence at a ceremony said to have honoured the people behind the 1972 munich terror attack. benjamin netanyahu said mr corbyn deserved "unequivocal condemnation" for laying a wreath on the grave of one of those behind the atrocity, but the labour leader said the claims are false. let's talk to our political correspondent jonathan blake. how significant is this intervention

by the israeli prime minister? it is quite an extraordinary intervention by benjamin netinyahu, the israeli prime minister, for a foreign leader to weigh into what is really a uk political row is unusual. jeremy corbyn responded swiftly online last night, saying. he went on to criticise the killing of palestinian protesters in gaza by israel. yesterday, jeremy corbyn was asked about his presence at that cemetery in tunisia in 2014 and whether indeed, as pictures appeared to show, that he had laid a wreath at the grave of those accused of carrying out the munich massacre. he

said he was risen at the time but didn't think he was involved in it. labour have put out a statement saying that he didn't lay a wreath at the graves. it hasn't stopped the criticism from save —— some labour mps calling on him to apologise, one saying that he has questions to answer, is shadow chancellor tweaking last night that enough is enough. —— tweaking. —— tweeting. a new deal for social housing tenants is being set out by the government, with new proposals including landlord league tables and greater powers for regulators. the government says it will give residents more control to hold landlords to account. but the plans have been strongly criticised by campaign groups, for making no commitment to build more homes for people on low incomes. here's our political correspondent matt cole. —— a new study has found smoking e—cigarettes may not be as safe as previously thought.

researchers at the university of birmingham say vaping could cause long—term damage to the lungs, as our health correspondent james gallagher reports. scientists collected the vapour from a e—cigarette, called it and it compare to the lungs of healthy people. it showed that even low amounts of paper added to damage. they said there may be long—term consequences and these alterations could accommodate in diseases that cause severe breathing difficulties. yet, they have measured changes for only 48 hours in a disease that ta kes only 48 hours in a disease that takes decades to manifest. it would ta ke yea rs takes decades to manifest. it would take years of studying vapours to know the truth. researchers said it was right to think sceptically about e—cigarettes. public health england said baking was not public health rebut was clearly much less harmful than smoking and it urged smokers to switch without delay. around thirty homes were evacuated overnight as a fire broke out at a mill in rochdale. ten fire engines and more than 50 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze, which broke out

at 10.30 last night. greater manchester fire service said it had brought the fire under control at around 1am. 10 premier league clubs could have played in front of empty stadiums during the 2016—2017 season and still made a profit. that is the finding of a bbc investigation, which shows the clubs benefitted from a record £8.3 billion in global tv revenue. matchday income contributed to less than a fifth of all earnings. the teams who could have made a profit without any fans include burnley, everton and spurs. fans: the lifeblood of football. cheering. and, for decades, the main source of income to clubs. but not anymore. tv rights deals mean more than half the teams in the premier league could remain in the top flight even if they played to empty stadiums. so how important are supporters these days? if clubs focus just on tv rights deals and not the fans, you are making a silly mistake, for the very good reason that we are part of the television product.

if there wasn't full grounds with a large away support and a good atmosphere, it wouldn't be nearly as attractive to the broadcasters. so with so many top flight clubs making profit before a single fan has attended a match, like here at everton, should some of that money now be filtering down to supporters in the way of cheaper tickets? there's people on really low incomes that are working hard and just want to go to games, and they are priced out. for football, you pay the money — if music is your thing, you pay the money. so with a tv rights deal worth over £5 billion, many fans may be questioning if the money isn't to them, where is it going? players and agents will be high on the list. but everyone agrees that

a game without supporters isn't a game worth watching. jo currie, bbc news. vienna has been named the world's most liveable city, that's according to a report by the economist intelligence unit. the austrian capital outscored last yea r‘s number one, the australian city of melbourne. the report says manchester has seen the biggest improvement among european cities over the past year. the least liveable cities were dhaka in bangladesh, and the syrian capital, damascus. yesterday we revealed the television presenter, katie piper as the first celebrity taking part in this year's strictly come dancing. last night, another two famous faces were confirmed. steps singer faye tozer and red dwarf actor dannyjohn—jules will also strut their stuff. there will be more revelations, yes. raking news. the communications regular to offer, has fined real male £50 million for breaking competition law. —— royal mail. it

says royal mail has breached rules with changes to its wholesale contracts. more information on that a bit later on. it is 12 minutes past seven. a new deal for social housing tenants is being promised by the government, a year after it promised the most substantial report of its kind for a generation. but the plan is being criticised for offering to build no new homes. the housing minister kit malthouse joins us now from westminster. plenty to talk to you about. as we mentioned, one year again, plenty to talk to you about. as we mentioned, one yearagain, sajid javid build the green paper as its most substantial report of its kind for a generation. how can that be the case if most people seem to accept that new homes need to be built and this involves not a single commitment to a new home? we do except that and we have onlyjust

made, back in june, except that and we have onlyjust made, back injune, some big announcements about investment in affordable housing and particularly in social housing. we have £9 billion set for the affordable homes programme and we have got to get that money out of the door. this is about a lot more than that because what came apparent to all of us, i guess, is that over the decades in action it has grown up around social housing which is not beneficial to those people in it. all we want to try and do is use this green paper to try to start a conversation, to recast at the side attitude towards social housing, as well as rebalancing the relationship between te na nts rebalancing the relationship between tenants and landlords, where beating te na nts a re tenants and landlords, where beating tenants are not powerful enough and landlords are not responsive enough and that is creaking the right atmosphere in social housing. —— creating. the idea is that there is not enough affordable housing for people. i know you are talking about improving the quality of life, but surely improving the quality of life for te na nts surely improving the quality of life for tenants is about enabling them

to live in homes that they can afford ? to live in homes that they can afford? and to live in homes that they can afford ? and they to live in homes that they can afford? and they need to be built. you are absolutely right and that is why we have this £9 billion affordable homes programme. we delivered 978,000 affordable homes is 2010-- delivered 978,000 affordable homes is 2010—— since 2010, and we recognise as a government that creating housing of all kind, of all tenures, is one of the most pressing and urgent issues for the country. we are pumping money into this programme. my job is we are pumping money into this programme. myjob is to drive that delivery programme, it as many shovels in the ground as fast as i can for tenants, affordable housing right across the board. there is a huge amount of effort going into that. in june we huge amount of effort going into that. injune we have just announced one classic £7 billion of affordable housing, another £1 billion of borrowing for the local councils. lots of money to get out the door. critical to that is notjust

building it, it is that how we view it as building it, it is that how we view itasa building it, it is that how we view it as a society, how landlords treat their tenants and how landlords can be held to a count. whether there is stigma and stereotyping and critically, whether social housing becomes a stepping stone into ownership. we want to make sure that everybody in the uk feels they have a shot at ownership at some point in their life and that will be part of this green paper discussion too.|j will come back to you on that because i think there is a point connected to the. just to pick you up connected to the. just to pick you up on those figures are. how many houses will be built without money? we are currently targeted about 12 one half thousand social homes to be built by 2021. don't forget it takes a bit of time for the industry to gearup, get the a bit of time for the industry to gear up, get the planning commission, get shovels in the ground. we are looking at about 23 one half thousand affordable homes overall. 0ur overall target is

300,000 new houses of all types across the uk and. that is about the level we think we need to be to try and overcome some of the pent—up demand in the housing market, reach a realistic price and get lots of light young people into the market and onto the property ladder in a way that their parents and parents did. you said 23,000 homes, but according to thejoseph rowntree foundation we are 30,000 homes, we are building fewer than 30,000 homes than we need every year. we are way behind in terms of affordable housing. well, where they are absolutely right is post the crash there was a peak of house building back in 2006— 2007, the crash 4000 a year, we are back to producing 220,000 houses a year andi to producing 220,000 houses a year and i am trying to push that. the government is tried to push it

towards 300,000. this is tanker that ta kes a towards 300,000. this is tanker that takes a long time to turn. we have seen takes a long time to turn. we have seen that turn over the last few yea rs seen that turn over the last few years and the effort now needs to be getting shovels in the ground as fast as possible, building as many houses as we can, designing them sensitively, positioning them sensitively, positioning them sensitively, making sure communities exceptin sensitively, making sure communities except in an critically as part of the green paper to make sure that where we have social and affordable housing there is no stigma and stereotyping and it is seen as an aspirational part of society at a stepping stone to ownership. the point want to come to is it is good to come to you this morning because people often make this point, hopefully i can articulate it well, you talked about the fact that ownership is something you would like to encourage and people can feel that at some stage in their lives they can own a home, the problem many make to us is that they can't get into local social housing, therefore they privately rent, and all of their money goes on a private rent, so they can't save for a deposit for a house and then they

claim housing benefit which costs £23 billion a year and the housing benefit, a lot of that is going on paying the private landlord, so it isa paying the private landlord, so it is a system that has... there is no way out of that circle of debt. couple of things, first of all we are trying to provide ways out. so shared ownership, part rent, part purchase schemes, help to buy, getting people who don't have deposits available into the housing market, you know, the first starter homes now starting to come out of the ground, reducing stamp duty for first—time buyers to get... lots of things we are doing in the market generally. where you are right is it might be we need to be more imaginative and try to innovate more with the other types of money that the government is putting into the housing market and before i got this job as the housing minister i was the ministerfor the button of job as the housing minister i was the minister for the button of work and pensions responsible for housing benefit and there is a programme at dwpp thinking about becoming more

innovative to stimulate activity in the housebuilding market, so watch this space. ok. positive news may be for some struggling this morning. thank you for your time this morning. the housing minister. we will talk about that later. carol is hidden among the sunflowers in st albans this morning, looking truly magnificent. good morning. good morning. good morning to you too. aren't they beautiful? i have never seen a too. aren't they beautiful? i have never seen a field of sunflowers like this in my life. i am so impressed by it. and we will speak with a farmer all about the su nflowers with a farmer all about the sunflowers in a now. he was telling me that he only planted the seed for the sunflowers on 14 may and they flowered in the last week ofjuly, largely down to the fact we had such hot weather. normally they would flower just a couple hot weather. normally they would flowerjust a couple of hot weather. normally they would flower just a couple of weeks perhaps later than the last week in july. these sunflowers you can see

art wall july. these sunflowers you can see a rt wall su nflowers july. these sunflowers you can see art wall sunflowers but there are many varieties and one in particular that i like the name of was "?big smile because that is what is on your face when you see them. they are beautiful. —— big smile. the weather forecast is a north—west, south—east split. in the north and west we will see some rain and it will be cooler and quite blustery and in the south and east we have warm conditions and bright conditions as well. the reason for the rain in the north—west is we have a weather front coming in from the atlantic. it is producing some showers across western and northern scotla nd showers across western and northern scotland and northern ireland. they will be replaced by rain later on. high pressure in the south will kill any of the shower was that we have. 0ne any of the shower was that we have. one or two showers in wales. we have d rizzles one or two showers in wales. we have drizzles in the mall —— on the moors of south anglia. we have cloud across at the moment, or in the bright spells. the wrangle advance across scotland and northern

ireland. eventually moving into northern england. —— the rain will advance. 17 to 20 in the north. 19— 25 in london in the south. blustery day leads us into our blustery evening and overnight with the band of rain weakening for a time across the north and west. it will rejuvenate at the end of the night as the rain turns heavy and persistent. we will see clear skies as we come further south and the temperature range tonight, 12— 17 or 19, and quite humid night. tomorrow, we start off with the weather front of cross paths of scotland, northern ireland and england, it is slowly going to move southwards, and in doing so it will throw cloud hell of it. it will be damp and drizzly first thing. —— ahead of it. the south—east will have the lion's share of the bright conditions and the sunshine. temperatures could get up the sunshine. temperatures could get up to 25— 26 in norwich, not far off that in hull. if you like it cooler you have to wait until thursday for

the weather front to sing southwards to the south—east before clearing. behind it things will freshen up and some showers across scotland, northern ireland and northern england. some of them are heavy and thundery. temperature—wise, though, they are way down in the south—east we re we they are way down in the south—east were we had them in the mid—20s. you will have the high teens. generally temperatures elsewhere will be similarto temperatures elsewhere will be similar to what we are looking at today and tomorrow. we have been inspired to do some sunflower research. would you like a fact? ready. yes, thanks, dan. the tallest was grown in germany which grew up to 27 feet. my goodness, that is huge! and thank you for your fake interest, carol. laughter. i have more. i have written quite a few down. there is more later. he has promised. let's look at the front pages this morning. we will start with the daily mirror

which claims £46 million has been stolen from pension pots over the last four years. sean has been talking about that this morning. and katie piper on this programme yesterday unveiled as the first strictly contestant with a headline that she wants to be with giovanni. she told us that. her chosen partner. the daily mail looks at the row between jeremy partner. the daily mail looks at the row betweenjeremy corbyn and the israeli prime minister who accused him of laying and wreeath at the suspect of the munich 0lympic massacre. 5 million britons have tripled the normal risk of suffering a heart attack according to a study because of their genes according to the times and the picture is a close—up of a lioness at a safari park in wiltshire. and the express has a picture of katie piper, this is as she left breakfast yesterday. and the main story is about patients who were given a short time to get out of a care home. the most read

article on the bbc website this morning is about the liverpool striker mo salah who was referred to the police after he was filmed using a mobile phone while driving. the police after he was filmed using a mobile phone while drivingm other news today call —— over the centuries many poets have been inspired by the lake district. now another name can join the likes of william wordsworth, and that's tony walsh. tony made the headlines with a poem following the manchester arena bombing last year. now he's been given the job of following some of the greats, as peter marshall explains. it is the blue, green, the black, the green, white, the eloquence, the eloquence, these elements combined to paint his portrait of a landscape that defines, divine design. the problem invites people to abort it feels like to be with your family, to slog up legal and to get the at the top, to remove what it is like to be out on the water. when people

put themselves back it hopefully helps them tap into an emotional moment for people. it is feeling glorious, victorious, that summit as it nears. and when the skyline meets our eyeliner we have a lifetime of delight. it is worth the blisters for the vistas, mr wainwright. delight. it is worth the blisters forthe vistas, mrwainwright. he had it right. the problem reflecting on the lakes next with images was commissioned by the lake district national park authority to celebrate a year as a unesco world heritage site and 67 years as a national park. to be invited to add to the poetic legacy and a canon of this pa rt poetic legacy and a canon of this part of the world was an honour and a privileged, and wordsworth and coleridge wrote lyrical ballads and mine is trying to be a lyrical ballad. it received the world premiere in ambleside and the poll and it appears has power.m premiere in ambleside and the poll and it appears has power. it made me cry both times, so obviously emotionally connected. it really captured what's unique about the

la ke captured what's unique about the lake district. i found it really moving. it is a love letter to the lake. there is a line in it that is apt to me as we stand here, it is a wonder made of thunder, a mystery in the mist and when water fell in love with sunshine, this is where they kissed. and when the cloud parts on our proud heart and our spirits rise and shine, and when the rain shows us and shine, and when the rain shows us how rainbows then our pain goes every time. and he is the most wonderful poet, isn't he, tony watt? yes, lovely rhythm. yes. you can almost guess where he is going, but not quite. yes, and he has a great face as well. still to come on the programme: it isa still to come on the programme: it is a gold medalfor dina asher—smith and a new british record. the

fastest woman in the world this year. we will chat with dina asher—smith, the winner of three gold medals at the european championshipsjust gold medals at the european championships just after 8am this morning. she seems to accelerate away from them, doesn't she? and she enjoys it at the same time, with a smile on herface. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news. dozens of passengers have been treated in hospital, three with serious injuries, after yesterday's coach crash on the m25. 41 people were injured including seven children. the princess royal university hospital in 0rpington was put on a major incident alert. kent police say a baby boy was born at the scene in the queuing traffic. the affected area has now fully reopened. the metropolitan police have become the first force in the country to develop and use its own mobile fingerprint device. the software allows suspects' fingerprints to be scanned with their identity confirmed within one minute if they are known to the police.

the met says it will save both officer time and public money. a new play at camden fringe festival hopes to help men speak out about mental health. tommy wilkes hadn't spoken to anyone about his struggles until his daughter told him about the play she was writing. she rewrote it to tell his story. if we can help anybody with this sort of illness, any person, one person, that would be a big thing. tottenham will have to wait to play in its new 62,000 seater stadium. there are delays to it's completion because of issues with critical safety systems. premier league matches against liverpool in september and cardiff in october will be held at wembley. the club has asked supporters to remain patient until a new move—in date is set. let's have a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service on the tubes this morning. it has been like that all morning.

0n the roads: the a13 is slow in to town through dagenham. in new malden: traps lane and coombe road are closed following a fatal collision last night. finally, in fulham: north end road remains closed southbound for repairs to a sink hole. let's have a check on the weather now with alina jenkins. good morning. it looks like our next spell of rain is going to be on thursday. so a couple of days of dry and settled weather. there will be sunshine around today. it will feel warm and also quite humid. some sunshine around this morning. then the cloud will tend to build and flatten out. bright or sunny spells through the afternoon. it stays dry, though. a gentle westerly breeze. in the best of the sunshine temperatures reach 24—25 celsius. it will be a fine end to the day. late sunshine through this evening. 0vernight we keep the mixture of cloud and clear spells. perhaps a slot of clearer skies for a time in the early hours before cloud builds again as we head towards dawn. another quite warm night.

temperatures not dropping much lower than 14—15 celsius. similar day tomorrow, dry, some good spells of sunshine, but a more noticeable breeze tomorrow. then the spell of rain on thursday, behind it turns fresher, and then warmer and drier again on the weekend. the old vic is joining forces with the royal mail to mark it's —— the old vic isjoining forces with the royal mail to mark its 200th anniversary with a special set of stamps. they'll feature some of the top performances at the venue over the years, including romeo and juliet with judi dench and john stride in 1960 and king lear with glenda jackson two years ago. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london in half an hour. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. here's a summary of this morning's main stories from bbc news. city regulators are urging people to "be on their guard" against pension fraud, after new figures showed victims lost millions of pounds in scams last year. they say people are being tricked out of their life savings, but it's thought the problem could be far wider

because most scams aren't reported. the pensions regulator and the financial conduct authority are launching a new campaign, to warn people of the different ways they can be fooled. the government has outlined plans for what it calls a "new deal" on social housing in england, aimed at improving the quality of life for tenants. the proposals include a league table for landlords and tougher powers for regulators when things go wrong. but the plans have been strongly criticised by campaign groups, for making no commitment to build more homes for people on low incomes. jeremy corbyn has clashed with the israeli prime minister on twitter, as the row over mr corbyn's presence at a ceremony said to have honoured the perpetrators of the 1972 munich terror attack continues. benjamin netanyahu said mr corbyn deserved "unequivocal condemnation" for laying a wreath on the grave of one of those behind the atrocity. but the labour leader said mr netanyahu's claims are false, and that he attended the event in tunisia in 2014 as part of a wider event about

the search for peace. labour said mr corbyn did not lay any wreath. some breaking news this morning, the communications regulator 0fcom has fined royal mail £50 million for breaking competition law. the regulator received a complaint from whistl, which has been challenging royal mail in delivering business letters in some parts of the country. it said royal mail had breached rules by charging companies that delivered letters directly more for access to royal mail's network than companies that didn't. around thirty homes were evacuated overnight as a fire broke out at a mill in rochdale. ten fire engines and more than 50 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze, which broke out at 10:30 last night. greater manchester fire service said it had brought the fire under control at around 1am.

new research has found evidence that e—cigarettes may be more harmful than previously thought. the small experimental study by the university of birmingham, suggests that breathing in vapour may cause long—term damage to the lungs. in february, a report by public health england, concluded that e—cigs were far safer than smoking. vienna has been named the world's most liveable city, that's according to a report by the economist intelligence unit. the austrian capital outscored last yea r‘s number one, the australian city of melbourne. the report says manchester has seen the biggest improvement among european cities over the past year. the least liveable cities were dhaka in bangladesh, and the syrian capital, damascus. if you've got a fear of heights, you mightjust want to look away for a moment. that is mont blanc, the highest mountain in europe, and that is swiss extreme mountaineer dani arnold, climbing it without a safety harness. this footage has been shared for the first time, since he completed

the climb last month. he passed teams using ropes, which had set off the previous evening, to complete the climb in two hours and four minutes. it looks like he ran up at mt. —— ran up about mt. —— ran up that mountain. in germany, they use sunflower seeds at mixed with rye bread and they have a popular bread. you can have su nflower have a popular bread. you can have sunflower seeds in bread, it is good few. they are supposed to be good for you for a particular reason. there are two types of sunflower seeds. they use the black ones in wheel and the striped ones in

snacks. —— in oil. that is the sort of thing andy murray would bestow hacking on when he plays tennis. —— be snacking on. andy murray's comeback from injury suffered another set—back last night. he lost in three sets to lucas poulle in the first round of the cincinnati masters, but this is only his fourth tournament since he returned to the circuit and he said he just needed to improve by 10 or 15 percent to start winning tight matches like this. johanna konta also went out in the first round. she started really well against aryna sabalenka, taking the first set, before losing in three. it was another tight match, though, they were on court for almost two and a half hours. tottenham are unlikely to play in their new stadium at white hart lane until late 0ctober, after issues with what they say are "critical safety systems". they'd marked their home match against liverpool on september the 15th as their first in the new ground but they now say they won't be able to stage the test events in the lead up to that. they've switched that game and their next to wembley.

the former england striker ian wright says manchester city winger raheem sterling comes in for unfair criticism from the press when he plays for his country, and it borders on racism. sterling was the subject of intense scrutiny over the summer's world cup in russia. he scored for city against arsenal on sunday and speaking on radio 5 live, wright said sterling felt more loved when playing for his club. when you look at the waves of criticism that he takes, it is tinged, there is a certain amount of racism towards it if i am going to be totally honest. what else can it be? they are literally picking on someone who has, the background he has come from, and they literally want to keep him down. when he is at manchester city he is comfortable, he's happy. went he is out there for england, he is out there for everybody to knock have a go at and that is what it comes down to. great britain won six medals on the opening night

of the pa ra—swimming european championships in dublin, including gold for scott quin, who's known as the flying scotsman, led home his team mate connor morrison in the men's 100—metres brea kstroke sb14 event, for swimmers with intellectual impairments. newcomer louise fidds beat spanish world record holder michelle alonso morales to win the women's race in the same category. alastair and jonny brownlee have been included in the british squad for the world triathlon grand final on the gold coast next month, despite a disappointing year so far. the brothers have both struggled with injury and haven't won a major medal between them so far, the lastest setback coming when alastair finished fourth in the european championships in glasgow. and the british twin brothers adam and simon yates will race on the same cycling team at the upcoming vuelta a espana. they'll both be in the australian team mitchelton—scott for the vuelta, which starts in just under two weeks. simon yates was leading the giro d'italia for much of the race earlier this year before fading in the final stages. tiger woods was meant to be taking

a non—playing role at this autumn's ryder cup but the usa captain jim furyk may yet consider him for a place in the team. woods finished second at the pga championship over the weekend, following up on a good performance at the open last month. furyk will name his four wildcard picks early next month. what is important is how well tiger has played. sixth place at the open championship, a second place at the pga. his game, i think the word he used was "trending". his game is trending. it is great to see him playing well. for me, the numbers, they are nice, good to look at, but not always the most important. we want the players that are going to help us be successful. quite interesting what he said, it was ina quite interesting what he said, it was in a directly absolutely, definitely. but, you would, wouldn't

you? before definitely. but, you would, wouldn't you ? before i definitely. but, you would, wouldn't you? before i go, just after eight o'clock will be talking to golden girl herself, gina asha smith. this is her arriving on. dina asher smith. she isjust she is just great. she isjust great. she has thrilled us she isjust great. she has thrilled us and will be talking to us at ten past eight. looking forward to that. what will your first question be? you are quick. how much faster can you go? which one is yourfavourite? i was such an michaeljohnson talk about the fact that she concentrate on either 100 or 200, he thinks there is less competition in the 200 internationally but he thinks she should double up and do them both. he was saying that by doing them both it makes her better at both. makes sense. medics have welcomed a ruling that allows a doctor to practise again, saying that the way she was treated could have discouraged them from learning

from their mistakes. dr hadiza bawa—garba was struck off following the death of six year old jack adcock. he died after developing sepsis at leicester royal infirmary. reacting to the decision, dr bawa—garba told the bbc‘s panorma programme that she hoped the ruling will lead to changes in the nhs. iam very i am very aware that this case goes beyond what just happened i am very aware that this case goes beyond whatjust happened to me. a single trainee doctor. my hope is that lessons learnt from this case will translate into a better working conditions forjunior doctors. but jack adcock‘s mother nicola, says she is now considering her own legal action, and is bitterly upset by the decision. ijust cannot i just cannot understand ijust cannot understand how i just cannot understand how someone can be charged with gross negligence manslaughter, struck off the

register by the general medical council and then be reinstated. she has now been in front of nine high court judges, has now been in front of nine high courtjudges, what are those other three saying that the other 60 to do theirjob right? three saying that the other 60 to do their job right? it three saying that the other 60 to do theirjob right? it makes a mockery of the justice system. joining us now is drjenny vaughan, one of dr bawa—garba's supporters. morning to you. we heard there from jack's mother, who is clearly upset, she has said that she is concerned that this sets a precedent, that doctors can do what they like. what is your reaction to that?|j doctors can do what they like. what is your reaction to that? i want to extend my wholehearted sympathy to jack's family here. i am a mother myself and have not lost a child and ido myself and have not lost a child and i do not know what that feels like. it is utterly devastating. what i can tell you is that this is not about protecting doctors or doctors sticking together. it was actually

about trying to create a fairer, safer, just culture. if the judgement had gone against her yesterday, it would have actually been worse to patient safety. many doctors are actually working in critically understaffed nhs hospitals at the moment and they are looking at what happened to her and frankly they are saying that could be me, back to be me on any day because there were so many things wrong in the hospital that day that she was working. she was convicted of criminal gross negligence manslaughter, but that looked at the actions on the day. before that and after that she had had a completely unblemished career. this is not a reversal, the two things were doing different things at. the court was looking at what happened on the day of jack's death and she admitted that she did make mistakes that day. the specialist tribunal rule was looking at whether in future she was

fit and safety practice medicine and she learnt from this, as we all learn from our errors. she remediated and she showed the panel that actually she was fit and they agreed and therefore that is why the appeal to courtjudges were right to actually reinstate the judgement of the panel. can i pick you up on a couple things. you say she has learnt, but this is at the price of a young boy who has died. no, it is not at the price of jack. mistakes happen across the nhs every day, thousands of patients die because of errors. the only great that you can actually make patients safer is when you have staff, when they commit errors, because they are all humid —— human, to speak about it. if they feel that they will be prosecuted and done for manslaughter and lose their livelihood, what you will actually get is a cover—up culture.

you will get people leaving the profession of going abroad. what you won't get is learning from errors because that is the only way we make patients safer. there are other exa m ples of patients safer. there are other examples of patients losing their relatives and what they have done, people like james titcomb, martin bromley, who have gone ahead and lost relatives and i have spoken to them, we have let as a profession from what went wrong there. we must apologise and admit our errors in order to make patients safer. that is the only good thing backing come out of this because nothing can bring jack back. what we can do is learn from the mistakes of his and not let it happen again.|j learn from the mistakes of his and not let it happen again. i can see that this is emotional as well. tell us about this particular case. do you think there is evidence because of what happened?“ do you think there is evidence because of what happened? if you look at what happened, she was a

trainee from maternity leave, she had been off for 14 months, she went into a hospital that she was unfamiliar with, she was looking after six wards on four different floors, looking after 75 patients that day, she was dealing with children stopping breeding, having an arrest, —— breathing, having an arrest, spinal taps on babies, she was completely overloaded. if we can learn one thing from this it is not to put trainees in that position. the problem is that too many trainees, they looking at what happened and saying, that could be me. if they say that, then look at how she was treated, she was dragged through the criminaljustice system, it has been seven years for her. it doesn't take away from the tragedy of what happened to the family. if lots of doctors are looking at what happened and worrying that if they make mistakes, because we all make

mistakes, that the same thing can happen to them, well what we want is to learn from the errors and get the open, save culture, and that's the best thing to come out of this. i know that you are a supporter. will she practice again? it will be a journey for her. she is still suspended by the specialist tribunal. she will work towards that. she has done hours and hours and hours of training in recognising infection, which is what she missed here. and so many of us knowing that, and the judges recognised that she presents no greater risk than any other doctor because of all the learning that she has done from this incident. doctors cannot be above the law. they must be held accountable. but it is the kind of deliberate, reckless, of using doctors we want to be held accountable by the law, not on trainees that make honest mistakes, not people making honest errors on a very busy day that could happen to any of us. and that's why the

judgement was absolutely right. thank you for talking to us us this morning. let's find out what's happening with the weather. carol is out and about in st albans this morning with some beautiful su nflowers. good morning. you're not wrong at all, dan. this is a pop—up farm near st albans all, dan. this is a pop—up farm near st alba ns and all, dan. this is a pop—up farm near st albans and if you want to come and see the sunflowers you can. entry is absolutely free. we've been watching the cloud build through the course of this morning. it is a call start to the day than it was when the sun was blazing down. hardly surprising. the forecast today is the north—west, south—east lit. in the north—west, south—east lit. in the north—west, south—east lit. in the north—west we are looking at cooler and wetter conditions. in the south—east, dry and warm at —— south—east, dry and warm at —— south—east split. the reason for the rain coming in is a weatherfront which is moving in across parts of northern and western scotland and northern ireland. and a ridge of high pressure in the south will kill off some of the showers we currently

have. first thing this morning you might seea have. first thing this morning you might see a wee bit of drizzle in the moors in the south—west, showers in wales and the same for east anglia. that will clear. although we start on a cloudy note we will see it break and sunny spells develop. meanwhile, we have showers across north—west scotland and northern ireland, they will turn heavier, more like rain, as the weather front on them and eventually sinks south towards cumbria. in between, well, bright sunny skies. temperatures in the north, 17— 20. in the south, 19— 25. as we had on through the evening and overnight, for a while the weather front tends to just ease off a touch, but it will tap up at the end of the night, and the rain will become heavier and more persistent. elsewhere we will have some clear spells and variable amounts of cloud and quite breezy night. temperatures tonight 12— roughly 17, so it will be humoured. so tomorrow we start off with the pep up in the weather

front across scotland, northern england and northern ireland —— humid. it will slowly push south. behind it some fresher conditions, sunshine, bright spells and showers. ahead of it very sunshine will build, turning hazy, but we have bright skies in the south—east. in norwich we could hit 25— 26. as we move north—west progressively it'll bea move north—west progressively it'll be a bit cooler. we have cloud in western england and wales tomorrow with some drizzle. then by the time we get to thursday the weather front eventually gets to the south—east with a narrowing and weakening band of rain by the time it gets to the south—east. behind it again fresh conditions with sunny spells. some heavy and thundery showers across parts of scotland and northern england and northern ireland. the temperature range by then, when we had 26 in norwich, more likely to be about 19. as we push further north and west we are looking at roughly 15 to about 19. thank you so much. you are in your beautiful field of su nflowers. you are in your beautiful field of sunflowers. thank you. we are

talking a lot about pensions this morning. sean, you are specifically talking about scams. people have been talking about... based on what you're saying, advice people have had over the years, things they have tried, people talking about investment property at losing the value of the pension pot, it is a clear issue for people. and that is why people think they have an opportunity to prey on people because these are big decisions to make. good morning. £23 million people were scammed last year and thatis people were scammed last year and that is just between 253 victims, though it is widely underreported for people suffering this. if you work it out, that is £19,000 each, so the regulator is warning today that these highly sophisticated scanners are luring to move into

these schemes. we were having financial struggles at this time and out of the blue we had a phone call that sounded amazing. they gave us ideas that we would get a balance of money coming to us and we transferred the money and then we would get bonuses every year. i thought it sounded amazing. and he said to me, don't you need the money now, and i thought, yes. yes, we needed the money now. and itjust sounded perfect. and i never for any length of time thought that anything could go wrong. we lost probably about £55,000 altogether. life is just going to be very difficult from now on trying to think about what we are going to do when we get older because we have nothing to fall back on now. so it is an issue that could affect a lot of people. louise claro, an independent financial adviser, joins us now. first up, we heard these figures,

and this case, like that one, what do you do it if you've got to the point of handing over your money, you are engaged with someone anything you are being defrauded? 0k, anything you are being defrauded? ok, so, if you have literallyjust done it, it is possible that there may be some sort of cancellation rights in the contract, though it depends if it is regulated or not. what we need to remember today is that not all pension schemes are bad and not all investments are bad. if you do get nervous, first of all see if you can cancel it straightaway. if it has gone too far there are two things you can do. if it is fraud, is there a legal contract anyway in the first place? if you think that you have transferred your cash somewhere, or put your money in a scheme, the contract... if it is fraud. that's what we are talking about this morning. yes, absolutely. there is recourse. first of all, you can seek recourse through the court system. you have to go through the legal route. you will find other investors have also placed money in

the same scheme and if they come together and do a group litigation exercise... and if there has been involvement longer way with an introducer, or a financial adviser thatis introducer, or a financial adviser that is regulated, because the regulated financial advisers sometimes get involved in these things are —— are knowingly or incorrectly you can go through the financial ombudsman but i think what the nca wanted to highlight is the scams, the fraudulent things set up, and when you look at these, i get involved every day and i see this because i present cases for the court. prospectuses am —— they look very respectable. there are even employees in the company running these scams and they don't even know themselves that it is a scam. it is people further up the pyramid that are aware that it is potentially going to be a fraud and investment.

there is a campaign to be launched from the financial conduct authority today and we will see the adverts going around, giving the idea that you may think you can achieve great things putting the pot in... we see pictures of people on jetskis. but that's not what you're going to get. you know. if you think you're going to do something with your pension pot, what should you do? see a financial adviser who is with the fca. what you can do is go directly to the fca website, put the name of the company in that this adviser work for, or the name of the adviser, either at war, and what you can do is go on the scam smart website that is being set up, and it will ask you a series of questions and what it will allow you to do is tell you whether that company or the individual is on a warning list, but you need to find out if someone is registered with the fca. people

shouldn't confuse it with the company registered with the companies are partially house, it needs to be the fca registration number. dan mentioned the numbers, this is people putting money into property, all different areas. looking back now at the pension freedoms, the ability to do more with your pension pot at 55 years old, was it a good thing or not? yes, it is. however, the problem is it effectively created a capitalised figure on people's pensions. and people suddenly thought they were going to get £3000 for life from their pension. but now it has an equivalent value of around £300,000. and people suddenly see the pot of money in front of them. and it is just too much to deal with. and they don't go and get proper financial advice. and there isjust not... people should be directed to registered and authorised persons. and unfortunately the market is awry

with people they just are people theyjust are not. thank you very much. very complicated. keep your messages coming in. lots of people getting in touch. you have heard a few of those stories as well. it is one that the regulator wa nts to well. it is one that the regulator wants to make sure doesn't get out of hand. you can see why. thank you. coming up later on breakfast: we'll be exploring the myth, the legend, and the science behind the megalodon, hollywood's latest shark film. if you don't like sharks, you definitely won't like it, 75 foot. no. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. we will have the very latest at 8am. see you then. good morning from bbc london news. breaking news, akai has crashed into security barriers outside the house parliament, so that is closed while

police deal with that. —— a car. we will bring you more news when we know about it. a 20—year—old woman has been killed by a car. a 27—year—old man was arrested and is in custody. passengers have been treated in hospital with serious injuries after the coach crash yesterday on the m25. 41 people were injured including seven children. the princess royal university hospital in 0rpington was put on a major incident alert. kent police say a baby boy was born at the scene in the queuing traffic. the affected area has now fully reopened. the metropolitan police have become the first force in the country to develop and use its own mobile fingerprint device. the software allows suspects' fingerprints to be scanned with their identity confirmed within one minute if they are known to the police. the met says it will save both officer time and public money. a new play at camden fringe festival hopes to help men speak out about mental health. tommy wilkes hadn't spoken to anyone about his struggles

until his daughter told him about the play she was writing. she rewrote it to tell his story. if we can help anybody with this sort of illness, any person, one person, that would be a big thing. let's have a look at the travel situation now. there the travel situation now. are minor delays on the overground, there are minor delays on the overground, otherwise there are minor delays on the overg round, otherwise it there are minor delays on the overground, otherwise it is a good service on the tubes this morning. 0n the roads, parliament square is closed because of the police incident. in new malden: traps lane and coombe road are closed following a fatal collision last night. finally, in fulham: north end road remains closed southbound for repairs to a sink hole. let's have a check on the weather now with alina jenkins. good morning. it looks like our next spell of rain is going to be on thursday. so a couple of days of dry and settled weather. there will be sunshine around today. it will feel warm and also quite humid. some sunshine around this morning. then the cloud will tend to build and flatten out. bright or sunny spells through the afternoon.

it stays dry, though. a gentle westerly breeze. in the best of the sunshine temperatures reach 24—25 celsius. it will be a fine end to the day. late sunshine through this evening. 0vernight we keep the mixture of cloud and clear spells. perhaps a slot of clearer skies for a time in the early hours before cloud builds again as we head towards dawn. another quite warm night. temperatures not dropping much lower than 14—15 celsius. similar day tomorrow, dry, some good spells of sunshine, but a more noticeable breeze tomorrow. then the spell of rain on thursday, behind it turns fresher, and then warmer and drier again on the weekend. the old vic isjoining forces with the royal mail to mark its 200th anniversary with a special set of stamps. they'll feature some of the top performances at the venue over the years, including romeo and juliet with judi dench and john stride in 1960, and king lear with glenda jackson two years ago. bye for now. good morning.

welcome to breakfast with louis minchin and dan walker. 0ur headlines today. a warning on pension scams. millions of pounds were stolen last year with victims losing £91,000 on average. the regulator says many more cases may not have been reported. a war of words betweenjeremy corbyn and israel's prime minister over mr corbyn's involvement in a palestinian wreath laying ceremony. we speak to dina asher—smith, the fastest woman in the world this year and winner of three gold medals at the european championships. royal mail is fined £50 million for breaking competition law. the communications watchdog says it discriminated against its competitors. andy murray suffers another setback on his return from injury. he was beaten in the first round of his latest tournament but says he thinks he's nearly back to his best. good morning from the pop—up farm near saint alden ‘s. we are surrounded by beautiful sunflowers and the forecast today, north—west

split, south—east split. in the north and west, more cloud, some rain and in the south and east, we have some sunny spells a bit more cloud. i'll have more details in 15 minutes. a very good morning to you. it's tuesday, 14th august. our top story. city regulators are urging people to be on their guard against pension fraud after new figures showed victims lost millions of pounds in scams last year. people are being tricked out of their life savings and a new campaign's being launched to raise awareness, as our personal finance reporter, kevin peachey explains. first, jennifer's trust fund, then her savings were lost, stolen by the fraudsters who were too good to be true. at first i didn't think anything was amiss, it was just like he knew everything. i asked questions and he had answers to everything. the scam had begun with a cold call at a time when her finances were strecthed. the promises of a cash sum

with a regular return pushed jennifer and her husband into investing and losing well over £50,000. i feel angry that we haven't had any compensation and basically at our age we are having to start from scratch. they are not the only ones worried that their financial future, hundreds and possibly thousands of people are tricked by pension scams each year. in 2017, the average lost reported to action fraud was £91,000. now the city watchdog, the financial conduct authority and the pensions regulator have unveiled a campaign featuring this tv advert, urging people to watch out for the warning signs like calls offering a free pension review, or high—rolling investments in hotels or green energy schemes. prevention is better than cure, so we want to give people some real handy tips to be aware of, particularly if they are being confronted by fraudsters. top of that list is looking on the fca website to see if a pensions firm is authorised.

a quick check to stop your money disappearing fast. kevin peachey, bbc news. a man has been arrested this morning after a car crashed into security barriers outside the houses of parliament, scotland yard has said. details of the incident are still unclear but the metropolitan police say they are unable to confirm the nature of it. these are live pictures from outside the houses of parliament. more on this as and when we get it. the streets around parliament square, milbank and victoria have been cordoned off and, as you can see, quite a heavy police presence at the moment. police are all over the scene. an ongoing police operation and we'll give you more

details as and when we have them but that's the scene in westminster this morning. a man arrested after a car crashed into security barriers outside the houses of parliament. jeremy corbyn has clashed with the israeli prime minister on twitter as the row over mr corbyn's presence at a ceremony said to have honoured the perpetrators of the 1972 munich terror attack continues. benjamin netanyahu said mr corbyn deserved "unequivocal condemnation" for laying a wreath on the grave of one of those behind the atrocity. but the labour leader said mr netanyahu's claims are false, and that he attended the event in tunisia in 2014 as part of a wider event about the search for peace. labour said mr corbyn did not lay any wreath. the government has outlined plans for what it calls a "new deal" on social housing in england, aimed at improving the quality of life for tenants. the proposals include a league table for landlords, and tougher powers for regulators when things go wrong. but the plans have been strongly criticised by campaign groups, for making no commitment to build more homes for people on low incomes.

earlier, the housing minister kit malthouse told us that the plans were designed to include a broad range of issues. well, we do accept that new homes do need to be built and we've onlyjust made, back injune some big announcements around investment in affordable housing and particularly in social housing. billions of pounds, we've got £9 billion set for the affordable homes programme. we've go to try and get that money out of the door. but this green paper is about a lot more than that because what became apparent to all of us i guess is that over the decades an attitude has grown up around social housing which is not beneficial to those people who are in it. that was kit malthouse talking to us earlier. that was kit malthouse talking to us earlier. the communications watchdog has fined royal mail £50 million for breaking competition law. sean's here to give us more detail. pensions first and now this while male fine. a big figure, £50 billion. the royal mail madejust

over £400 million profit last year so it's a different decent chunk of that but also the fact it's just the royal mail being fined for the first time in the uk since it was privatised and the reason is often, the regulator, has done that because it thinks the royal mail has taken advantage of its dominant position in the delivery market, particularly bulk letters, so those things we get through the post but everybody gets on your street. if a competitor wa nts to on your street. if a competitor wants to get involved in delivering those, they would have to use part of royal mail's service to do that for the royal mail put up prices backin for the royal mail put up prices back in 2014 and one competitor said the prices being put that meant they we re the prices being put that meant they were paying more for services that others were and they put on a complaint and that they did not expand their business they way they wa nted expand their business they way they wanted to answer the regulator has now said they've agreed with complaint and find the royal mail £50 million. royal mail say they disagree massively with it and are appealing it. they said the prices we re appealing it. they said the prices were never actually paid, we

withdrew those, so it's still ongoing a little bit. the fine won't be paid untilan ongoing a little bit. the fine won't be paid until an appropriate process is head. ok, but it's a lot bigger. thank you. new research has found evidence that e—cigarettes may be more harmful than previously thought. the small experimental study by the university of birmingham, suggests that breathing in vapour may cause long—term damage to the lungs. in february, a report by public health england, concluded that e—cigs were far safer than smoking. vienna has been named the world's most liveable city, that's according to a report by the economist intelligence unit. the austrian capital outscored last yea r‘s number one, the australian city of melbourne. the report says manchester has seen the biggest improvement among european cities over the past year. the least liveable cities were dhaka in bangladesh, and the syrian capital, damascus. we're going to take you back to

what's happening outside westminster this morning. amman has been arrested after a car crashed into security barriers just outside the houses of parliament, confirmed to us houses of parliament, confirmed to us by scotland yard in the last few moments. this is the scene and you can see the holy area is cordoned off at the moment. the streets around parliament square, milbank, victoria tower gardens, have been cordoned off and dozens of armed police you can see them there and also ambulances on the scene too. armed officers have been surrounding the car before they apparently led a man away in handcuffs and scotland ya rd man away in handcuffs and scotland yard confirming in the last few minutes that a man has been arrested after this car which you can see on the bottom right of your picture. 0n the bottom right of your picture. 0n the bottom right of your picture. 0n the bottom right—hand corner you can see it. it happened shortly before 8am this morning. jonathan blake is on the phone at the scene. jonathan, what more can you tell us about what's happening so far? i'm

standing on milbank, the road which ru ns standing on milbank, the road which runs alongside the river thames and in front of the houses of parliament, and as i'm talking to you, we are being moved well back by the police, who are in attendance here. we are probably a couple of hundred meters or so from the houses of parliament itself. from here i can see half a dozen police cars, more arriving all the time, we have seen an more arriving all the time, we have seen an ambulance drive past, two fire engines drive past, armed police officers, regular police officers, as well, and several police motorbikes in attendance here. exactly what sparked this heavy police response is unclear at this point. i know you have been reporting a car crashed into barriers outside parliament. we haven't seen that ourselves. we have heard from an eyewitness that the car hita heard from an eyewitness that the car hit a cyclist. 0utside parliament. it crashed into the

barriers. whether this heavy police response is in response to an accident or something else, it's not clear at this stage. jonathan blake, at the scene for us, just outside westminster, just to reiterate, a man has been arrested after a car crashed into security barriers outside the houses of parliament. that's been confirmed by scotland yard. it happened just before 8am this morning and a large police presence, more police arriving on the scene at the moment and if you can see that picture, if you look at the bottom right—hand corner, we believe that is the car which is crashed into the barrier with a door open next to those two emergency vehicles with a fire engine just behind them. you can see quite clearly the whole area has been cordoned off and another ambulance just arriving and over the last few minutes, as we've been watching these pictures, sniffer dogs have been searching the area is, as well. this is an ongoing incident, few details about what is happening, why this might have happened, but we do

know a man has been arrested after a car crashed into security barriers and as you can see quite clearly, it's outside the houses of parliament this morning. as soon as we get more details, we will bring them to you here on breakfast. it is 8:11pm. we were promising to speak to dina asher—smith. dina asher—smith is the first woman in almost 30 years to win three european sprint titles at one championships. now she's being tipped as a possible gold medal winner at the tokyo 0lympics in two year's time. no pressure at all. i can see her smiling. i can see her smiling. she's also the fastest woman in the world this year. before we talk to her, let's look back at a week she'll never forget. commentator: dina asher—smith gets a blistering start and it is gold for dina asher—smith! a new british record! dina asher—smith take the title!

21.89. she has done it again! this is a true contender now. she is one, as other athletes are training for those medals and championships, they will have dina asher—smith in mind. surely she can chase them down? dina asher—smith, she comes away! it gives me goose bumps watching that. dina joins us now. huge congratulations. so strong, so fast. which of those medals is your favourite? i keep getting asked this

question and i actually don't know. the really obviously means so much because running with a team is so rewarding and working to make sure three other people also can achieve their dreams are so special —— relay. i think individually the 200 simply because running 21.8 in that blew my mind because it was beyond anything i had imagined, so i was very proud of that achievement. building up to be championships, had you been feeling that you were in great form knowing you are going to produce something like that which we saw? well, yes, i knew! produce something like that which we saw? well, yes, i knew i was in good shape coming into the championships. i had already set the british record in the 100 metres eliot that year, 10.92, so my coat was hoping i would go into the championships in good shape and able to run 10.8, but i didn't expect to run sub 22 in the 200 so i was very happy. you know you are winning but at what point do you are winning but at what point do you know you are completely smashing it? you don't, that's the thing of

all that you just keep thinking, run, run, because typically in sprints, even though you think you might be winning, you have some of these girls who are strong finishers and they will fly straight past evils of you might have won meet at ago and the next thing, oh, you third. idid ago and the next thing, oh, you third. i did not know until i crossed the line and saw the clock. you see the cameras facing you and anybody cheering your name and that's when you know you've done really well. we've seen your incredibly proud mum over the last few weeks. mum and dad are so happy. it's great that you are celebrating that as well. how much does the support and love and years of dedication from your family mean to you? and i suppose, that's a huge pa rt you? and i suppose, that's a huge part of your success as well? it is, i am fortunate to have two pa rents to it is, i am fortunate to have two parents to keep me grounded. they will do anything for me. i feel so eternally grateful for that. they like to pop up at meetings around

the world. earlier this year i was racing at oregon in america and my mum just pop out out of nowhere. she said, hello, you don't think i would let you not have any support? honestly, i am so grateful for their support. none of this comes without extraordinary hard work, does it? definitely. i have been fortunate again to have a second father figure in my coach, john blackie, who has been coaching me since i was eight yea rs been coaching me since i was eight years old. also, just the british fans. they have been aware of me, specifically the athletics fans who have been aware of me since i was 17 when i burst onto the scene at senior stage. just to be able to do well for them is personally rewarding and i hope i can make them proud when i ran at the grand prix this weekend. we have known about your quality and your ability for a

while. i saw you laughing when we we re while. i saw you laughing when we were talking about the olympics. as soon as you were talking about the olympics. as soon as you produce what you did last week and windows three gold medals, the first question we asked of michaeljohnson was, can she win the olympic games? isn't that something on your radar? you want to be the best in the world and you are running world—class times, so it must be something you think about. it is something everybody thinks about. you cannot speak to a sprinter and say, do you want to win the olympics? nobody is going to say no. i need to go home, i don't want to do that. it is not easy. it is the olympic games and there are so many talented women out there running unbelievable times. we have got four of the fastest women in action right now and not all of them we re action right now and not all of them were in the european championships. some of them ran for america and

jamaica. it is no easy task. whilst it is warming and incredible that people are back on me, it is no mean feat. people are blessed with how you deal with that pressure and nerves. have you got a way of dealing with it? or is itjust your job on the day? i don't really get too nervous any more, but that comes from my experience of going into competitions and being far younger and less experienced. then you think i don't know what i am doing. also, having the confidence in my ability and knowing i have a job to do when i step out there. ijust really want to fulfil my potential when i step onto the track. if you had to choose between the 100 and 200, would you try and do both? at the moment i would hedge my bets with a 200. it

is my personal favourite, would hedge my bets with a 200. it is my personalfavourite, i like running the band. i am quite short, so anywhere i get the physical advantage, i would go for it. it will be lovely running for a home crowd this weekend? all the athletes will be excited to run in birmingham on saturday because it is like a homecoming. as a nation we love athletics and it is great to see everybody behind us. when you come home and you waive that the crowd and say thank you in person, it means more. i am and say thank you in person, it means more. i am so and say thank you in person, it means more. i am so excited to race in birmingham. i love your enthusiasm, so many congratulations. you have even been praised by storm sea. you have even been praised by storm sea. did you see that?|j you have even been praised by storm sea. did you see that? i did, it is really nice. i was looking and i thought, oh, that is me! get used to

it. we have got an update on the breaking news this morning about a man who has been arrested after a car crashing into security barriers outside the houses of parliament. we now know some people have been injured. it happened about half an hour ago. you can see the live scene there. lots of police and ambulances on the scene. this is important information, the area is in lockdown after the police arrived on the scene. lots of different images being shown on social media, including a suspect being surrounded by officers and being led away. streets around parliament square and milbank and victoria tower gardens have all been cordoned off whilst the police, ambulances and firefighters deal with what is an ongoing situation. in the last hour we have received a number of updates

from the police and they say the car has collided with barriers outside parliament. this is confirming what we have just heard. parliament. this is confirming what we havejust heard. this is a parliament. this is confirming what we have just heard. this is a tweet from the metropolitan police. it is towards the right of your picture and the car is between these barriers. those barriers have been up barriers. those barriers have been upfor barriers. those barriers have been up for some time. i am sure many of you will have been there, but houses of parliament are surrounded by security barriers of steel and concrete. those measures were extended in the wake of the westminster bridge attack in march 2000 and 17. it is an ongoing situation and we will keep you up to date. as louise says, we will bring you more detail and jonathan blake, our correspondent, is down there this morning and he is monitoring

the situation. if anything changes, we will bring you that this morning. carroll has been out and about in a lovely place this morning in saint all bones and is surrounded by su nflowers. we have got an north—west and south—east split in the forecast. in the north and west it will be cooler and some of us will see some rain. in the east it will be cloudy, but it should brighten up during the day. we have a weather front coming in across the north west and it is a cold front and it will bring in some rain across northern ireland. the ridge of high pressure coming in from the south—west means the showers in the south will fade. we have showers and drizzle in parts of east anglia. they will clear and it

will dry east anglia. they will clear and it willdry up and east anglia. they will clear and it will dry up and some sunshine will develop. meanwhile, we have got the ring sinking south across scotland and northern ireland and eventually coming into the north—west of england in cumbria. we are looking at between 17—20 in the north and in the south, 25. from southern england and into the midlands some brighter skies developing. overnight many of us will see clear skies. the rain will weaken in the north—west, but by the end of the night it will rejuvenate once again and turn more persistent and heavier. we are looking at between 12—17, so another muqqy looking at between 12—17, so another muggy night in prospect. tomorrow it will be quite cloudy and damp across south—west england, wales and north—west england. the rain is coming out of scotland into northern england and behind that it will

brighten up with the showers. the cloud will always build, but the brighter skies will be in parts of the south—east. we could have temperatures up to 25 or 26, but fresher as we pushed further north and west. on thursday the weather front eventually makes its way down into the south—east. behind it there will be some sunny skies, but for northern england, northern ireland and scotland there will be some showers and some of those will be heavy and thundery. but temperatures are down. in norwich on wednesday it could be 25 or 26 and on thursday it will be 19. across the board it is from the mid—teens up to the high teens. thank you, we will see you in half an hour. you may remember tony

walsh, he made the headlines with a poem following the manchester bombings last year. he has now been given thejob of bombings last year. he has now been given the job of following some of the greats. the greys, the greens, the blacks, the whites. this is a landscape that defines divine design. the poem invites people to remember what it is like to be here with your family, remember what it feels like to be out on the water. when people put themselves back there, hopefully it ta ps themselves back there, hopefully it taps into the deep sea of emotion and memory for them. that summit as it nears and when the skyline meets our eye line we have a lifetime of delight. it is worth the blisters for the vistas. mr wainwright got it

right. to be invited to add to the poetic legacy of this part of the world is an honourand a legacy of this part of the world is an honour and a privilege. wordsworth and coleridge wrote lyrical ballads and that poem tries to bea lyrical ballads and that poem tries to be a lyrical ballads. it received its world premiere in ambleside. and its world premiere in ambleside. and it has power. it made me cry both times, so connected emotionally. it has power. it made me cry both times, so connected emotionallym ca ptu res times, so connected emotionallym captures the lake district. it is a love letter to the lakes. there is a line, it is a wonder made of fun, when love fill in the mist and when water fell in love with sunshine,

this is where they kissed. when our spirits rise and shine and when the rain shows us her rainbows, then our pain goes, every time. amazing that they went on such a beautiful day. he has got a real gift. lovely to listen to his staff. we know a man has been arrested outside the houses of parliament after a car crashed there. we will bring you an update on that. we know the whole area is in lockdown. if you are in that area, in lockdown. if you are in that area , you in lockdown. if you are in that area, you should be aware that it will cause other ongoing issues. more than ten police vehicles and at least three ambulances remain outside parliament. firearms officers are there and a number of police dogs. we will be live on the scene and we will get the very latest from our reporter who is down there this morning. the incident took place at 20 to eight this

morning. the metropolitan police confirmed it took place. time for the news where you are. yesterday we had quite a bit of rain fall and thunderstorms and eastern england but for today it should be much drier story for england and wales. some bright and sunny spells and quite warm, as well. further north and west, patchy rain spreading through northern ireland into the north and west of scotland in particular, eastern and south—eastern scotland should be largely dry with brightness, certainly some dry weather with some sunny spells across the far south of england and south wales. temperatures getting into the mid—20s. temperatures getting into the mid-205. 23-25

temperatures getting into the mid—20s. 23—25 further north and west. through this evening and tonight, lengthy clear spells for england and wales. the cloud will be there in the north and west and patchy outbreaks of rain which will intensify during wednesday across the north and west of scotland. dry the north and west of scotland. dry the most of england and wales but some rain moving into north—west england and west wales later. bye— bye. if you are just if you arejustjoining us, this is the scene live, just outside the palace of westminster, the house of commons, an incident here involving a car, which has crashed into security barriers. the driver has been detained by armed police. they swooped within seconds of this car crashing into the barrier. it is reported that several pedestrians have been injured for them it's not known how seriously. one of them, it appears, was a cyclist. his bicycle

has been badly damaged and is still lying on the road. the area is in lockdown, though. emergency services on the scene.